Jet Makes Emergency Landing at Kennedy

Published: February 6, 1995

A Trans World Airlines jet made an emergency landing at Kennedy International Airport yesterday minutes after pilots noticed vibrations in an engine on takeoff from La Guardia Airport, officials said.

The jet, a Lockheed L1011 carrying 237 passengers and 12 crew members from New York to West Palm Beach, Fla., left La Guardia just after 8:30 A.M., and the pilots noticed the problem with engine No. 3 as the plane climbed steeply away from the runway, said Holly Baker, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The pilots shut down the engine and landed the plane, Flight 293, at Kennedy Airport without incident at 8:46 A.M.